Overmind Summary for ML Workflows
- Overmind is a lightweight process manager that uses a Procfile to run multiple commands or services together in a single tmux session.
- It provides unified startup, logging, and control over multi-process development environments.
You’re developing a synthetic data generator (process A), a feature/extraction process (process B), and a small model training loop (process C) plus maybe a logging/monitoring UI (process D).
- Use a Procfile:
data_gen: python data_generator.py
preprocess: python preprocess.py --watch
train: python train_model.py
ui: streamlit run monitor.py
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With Overmind: run
overmind start→ launches all four. You can watch logs of each, easily stop thedata_genpart if you update it, restart only that, while keeping the training and UI running. -
If the training loop triggers new data generation automatically, you’re able to stop/restart just the appropriate service.
This improves iteration speed for research/development.